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Listen: Ratking and Black Dice's Eric Copeland Team up for "Gauchos"

New Ratking! That's the reminder that crops up a couple of times in this fantastic, skittering composition that combines the group's nasal raps and a few swaggering ad libs with a massive drumbeat and a fleeting vocal sample. A collaboration with Eric Copeland of Brooklyn experimental mainstays Black Dice, it's just weird enough to throw a few people off and it's fun as hell.

Recorded in Converse's Rubber Tracks studio in Brooklyn, it's also the first taste of a promotional project, CONS EP VOL. 1, coming out soon to celebrate the re-release of Converse's CONS sneaker collection.